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Author Archives: Jay
caucho’s got a facelift
You may, or may not know that I’m still a Resin user. Hence, every now and then I hit the Caucho site for documentation, mailing list archives, etc. Well today I decided to do just that; it had been at … Continue reading
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JSR 303… 2 years later
Back in ’06, I wrote about JSR 303, which aims to bring Bean Validation to the JDK. Well to be specific, it defines a meta-data model and API for JavaBean validation. The spec. draft aslo states that it will not … Continue reading
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Dr Uncle Jimmy…
Saw this skit on SNL; I think it’s pretty funny. Ya might like… OK, copyright infringement, so youtube took it down… crap. Oh well, my favorite line from the entire thing: “Sure you could find a better barbecue, or a … Continue reading
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constrained resize
OK, I have a JFrame whose dimensions had to be constrained on resize. Basically, it has to grow equally in width and height (think Checkerboard). In order to do that, I had to override the JFrame’s setBounds. However, I had … Continue reading
IDEA hidden features…
If you are a long time user of IntelliJ IDEA, you already know why it’s great. If you are not, I’ll tell you the IDE just makes things easier. Aside from the community, and large number of quality plugins, it … Continue reading
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I love NY…
OK, so it had been maybe three years since I last visited NY. Just came back from a six day visit of that great state. You may not know, but I was raised in the Bronx. The Bronx happens to … Continue reading
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webwork2 and unchecked checkboxes…
your average Web-MVC framework does many things. It may simplify your life with some basic type-conversion. It may allow you to directly map an object’s method as a Web Action. However, even the best may gloss over an issue… at … Continue reading
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java posse says please leave…
So some guy (I wont link to him) had complaints about podcast lengths. He happened to single out the Java Posse. They didn’t take that laying down. Next podcast – episode 161, the English guy (Dick Wall) politely notes that … Continue reading
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certified in spring…
Spring has definitely made my life easier. Not just on all of my side projects, but at work too. At this moment, I have all our domain objects and services wired and working via Spring-2.5. Mostly JPA, two JDBC Daos. … Continue reading
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the show me campaign…
If you can, and care, here’s a charity to consider: the show me campaign. I came upon it watching a John Legend video for his song, Show Me. At first I thought he was doing a take on the two … Continue reading
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